Supreme Court· 12/5/1978

United States v. Ceccolini

Citations

435 U.S. 268
98 S. Ct. 1054
55 L. Ed. 2d 268
1978 U.S. LEXIS 70

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holding that suppression of witness testimony was not required when the government learned the witness’s identity by means of an illegal search
holding that, for Fourth Amendment purposes, testimony offered by witnesses discovered as result of illegal search may be attenuated from that illegality
concluding that live witness testi- mony should be excluded much less often than other unlawfully obtained evidence
concluding that live witness testimony should be excluded much less often than other unlawfully obtained evidence
concluding that “since the cost of excluding live-witness testimony often will be greater, a closer, more direct link between the illegality and that kind of testimony is required”
suggesting that derivative physical evidence will less readily be admitted than derivative testimonial evidence

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Judges: Blackmukt, Brennan, Burger, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Stewart, White

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